Topic: The Situation in Myanmar
Country: Netherlands
Delegate Name: Calvin Watry
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Netherlands position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
The Netherlands recognizes the situation in Myanmar as atrocities and as ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people. The Myanmar government refuses to acknowledge the violence done to the Rohingya. Action must be taken to prevent further death and violence from happening. The Netherlands recognizes that the government of Myanmar does not want humanitarian aid to reach the people who have suffered by these terrible acts of violence, however, assistance must be given to ensure the survival of the people being targeted. The mass exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar has become further complicated regarding the supply of resources to the refugee camps that they are going to. Between November 1, 2016, to December 9, 2016, 22,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar to camps in Bangladesh. These camps must be provided with sufficient resources to aid the people who need it. The Netherlands believes that the best course of action to help the Rohynga inside and outside Myanmar is to make the top priority providing aid. In order to be able to provide aid to the Rohynga, Myanmar must be open to allowing aid to enter the region of the Rakhine, as well as accepting the Rohynga people as Rohynga. Providing aid will, not only help keep the Rohynga people safe and healthy, which is the primary goal, but will also help to instill a notion of confidence and give a reason to support the government of Myanmar, from their people. If the people of Myanmar become more comfortable with their nation, then there will be more stability within the nation, thus making it harder for terrorism to take hold. For Myanmar to allow such aid into the nation, the Myanmar government must, first, recognize the atrocities occurring within the nation. In order for Myanmar to become open to aid, there must be outside influences from the international community to help persuade Myanmar. This effort could start by providing aid to the refugees outside of Myanmar, and working the way into the nation through diplomacy as well as providing protection to the refugees in camps through setting up a peacekeeping campaign. If Myanmar still will not yield to foreign aid coming into the nation for the Rohynga, sanctions must be placed on Myanmar. The import of fabrics and the export of timber and natural gas must have sanctions placed onto it, to further pressure the Myanmar government to help the Rohynga people. “United Nations Peacekeeping.” United Nations, United Nations, peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-security-council. Ives, Mike. “14 Countries Press Myanmar to Allow Aid in Rohingya Areas.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-crisis-rakhine-muslim.html .“Letter Dated 23 August 2018 from the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations Addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2018/779) – Myanmar.” ReliefWeb, 23 Aug. 2018, reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/letter-dated-23-august-2018-permanent-representative-netherlands-united-nations.
